Collected Fictions
1951★ 9.1
The Books canon
Sourced and shelved.
Every book chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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Selected Stories
1904★ 8.9
The Canterbury Tales
1390★ 8.9
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
1924★ 8.7
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
1955★ 7.8
Selected Stories
1996★ 7.7
The Arabian Nights
Author unknown
1100★ 7.5
The Decameron
1353★ 7.5
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
1849★ 7.2
Kolyma Tales
1978★ 7.1
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
1922★ 7.0
The Garden Party and Other Stories
1923★ 7.0
Collected Tales
1852★ 7.0
Red Cavalry
1926★ 7.0
Stories of Your Life and Others
2002★ 6.7
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1892★ 6.7
Winesburg, Ohio
1919★ 6.6
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
1852★ 6.6
Master and Man and Other Stories
1856★ 6.6
The Street of Crocodiles
1934★ 6.5